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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
“As an EU poster, I need to remind everyone in every thread that I have health care and GDPR.”
"As an American poster, I will get really upset about the idea of GDPR applying to US companies that do business with EU citizens and businesses. I will also complain about other EU regulations, because regulation is bad, stifles innovation and we don't need it in the land of the free, unless the state is California."
"as an American poster I will also get annoyed by non-americans having anything to say about how our legislation works and how that affects them; after if it wasn't for us there wouldn't be any money around"
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#254Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…
That’s what this site is. You’ve been talking to a machine all this time. Do you really think a person would have this much time to argue day in and day out over systemd? That that many people care wherever or not Go has generics and which other languages does them best? That rust somehow is the cure for everything from game engines to the common cold? Think about all the times a “person” stated something was Turing…
Who could argue for hours and praise and upvote someone getting Doom running on all their household appliances?
Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#255Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…
I did this quite a few years ago. If I remember correctly, it was so convincing that people emailed Dang because I set the username at the top to be “pg”
Re: Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)
#256Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads. When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the e…
Let's go a level further. Instead of banning/shadowbanning people just send it to shadow realm where all they see are bot created comments and bot created answers to what they comment
Gold
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#257Unrealistic. Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.
Why isn't this at the top?
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#258In all seriousness, I think people not reading the full article is a recurring theme on hn.
For controversial topics, it's a major problem: people don't establish what's actually being debated, instead attacking/defended what they think I'd being debated, so the conversation develops slowly as a result.
However, I also think it's a strength of hn, because hn has a strong culture of going off topic: allowing for people with related experience to share and to suggest new avenues to explore. Often, instead of bookmarking the referenced article, I bookmark the hn thread instead for this reason.
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#259There's also this for more hacker news satire although it sadly seems dormant now:
http://n-gate.com
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#260Too bad that n-gate.com stopped updating in mid-2021. It was great for this stuff, and arguably it still is. Edit: Don't miss the usernames in OP's parody thread though, they're just as hard to spot as on actual HN (which is a great feature of this site) but I thought they were the funniest part.
When telling people about HN, I'd emphasize first reading the guidelines, and not treating it like other social media. Then I'd say, when some comment thread goes intolerable, they can get relief by reading some n-gate. (Though the content of the last post precluded mentioning it at the company where I was working.)
I hope the n-gate person is well, and that they didn't blow a gasket, taking on the burdens of too many HNers.